skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say larger/corporate landlords and/or property management companies are generally more predictable, but not necessarily better.
> A year into the project I am forced to revise my opinion. When browsing my code-base I often stumble in abstruse niche solutions for problems that should not have existed.

This is a widespread problem regardless of AI. Hence the myriad Stack Overflow users who are frustrated after asking insane questions and getting pushback, who then dig their heels in after being told the entire approach they’re using to solve a problem is bonkers and they’re going to run into endless problems continuing down the path their on.

Not that people aren’t on too fine a hair trigger for that kind of response. But the sensitivity of that reaction is a learned defense mechanism for the sheer volume of it.
I think humans are excellent at finding fault. It’s easier to deconstruct a problem than it is to reconstruct one from scratch.

Having an oracle that knows how to put a framework of events together (even wit errors) is much better than asking a human to do it from scratch.
I went to Purdue, a land-grant University in Indiana. When I was there the school had over 30,000 students and housing for about 1/3 of that. They can most certainly afford the land to build more housing, but the demand is not there[1].

Other schools have to require underclassmen to live on campus to fill their housing -- which is often more expensive than living off campus.

1: Housing was provided based on seniority; older students got first pick, yet the housing was overwhelmingly occupied by freshmen.
Not all organizations can afford code reviews.
But that implies there are a lot of good programmers among the rejected CVs.

I mean here in this example from OP - if he improves his CV visuals and then finds a job - that means he had the technical qualities to get the job in the first place, only the CV impression was causing the rejections. Which means the hiring managers are following a flawed metric, relying on shallow and easily manipulated visual factor. Every time I try to dig into this, the answer is along the lines "You need to impress the hiring manager in 10 seconds" which is a very different game than the technical skill and I don't see how would that impression translate into long term work performance. It's just gatekeeping. Nobody is quoting any statistical research, not even the hiring managers themselves, so I suspect there isn't much to back this practice. I hope someone can prove me wrong.
Telling someone you're not suicidal and then committing suicide sounds more like she was depressed and people worried about her and she wanted to calm people by telling them she won't commit suicide.

The wisleblower of a worldwide famous controversial airplane company didn't seem suicidal or depressed, and then he says if he hits the news that he commuted suicide it's not.

That's 2 completely different situations that you can't really compare.
I speak English, not any code languages.

I recently learned javascript this way - knowing English and other languages (Thai, Mandarin), I kept pasting my pseudo-code, asking GPT to convert it into javascript, and then iterating on that. Took me a week or two to get the language without reaching for any sort of manual/tutorial. Speaking without experience - it would take me 2-4x as much time to learn the same thing otherwise.

:) My story is not entirely true, but close. My point being llms are learning language and logic (mostly English currently). Programming languages are just languages with logic (hopefully).

And if you think the ability to shorten meaning of a complex idea is exclusively the purview of code, think of a word like "tacky" or "verisimilitude"- complex ideas expressed in a shorter format, often with intended context with significant impact on the operations in the sentence around them.
And have you ever stood in a store where your clerk needs the register to calculate what 200 - 50 ct is? It’s embarrassing!
Yeah, we haven't had her practice for this reason. I'm not sure the physics works for a small kid. But the master wants all the kids to try, and he's instructed them on how to hold their hand to avoid injury.
The surge of "junk pricing" has changed at least my US travel behaviour significantly. Used to heavily use Lyft, AirBnB, Uber Eats - now its hotel, car rental and grocery shops.
Sounds strange that someone would pay for that. But who am I to judge.
It's nice that you as a person exist and do what you do but know that you are an exception. I'm sure some slaveowners were more decent to their slaves relative to other slaveowners.

I'd say a large number if not the majority of landlords really are parasitic, they do very little upkeep especially in cities or municipalities with poor tenancy laws, but reap the benefits especially when there is high demand.
Ukraine's AI Spokesperson
Mosquitos kill over a million people every year. Show them no mercy.
> This is why I'm for total deregulation of healthcare.

Is that a good idea for an industry that seems filled with completely immoral bastards that'll screw over everyone ("they'd sell their own grandmother!") to make an extra cent, or save themselves a cent?

I could see it might be a good thing where an industry has a good reputation for fair dealing. US health care doesn't seem to fit that description though.
In the lore they’re creatures with armor, but the aesthetics and presentation are entirely within “giant mech” tropes.
This need wasn’t super prevalent in the pre LLM days. It’s rare to have a multi-GB blob that should be commonly used across sites.
In the section you referenced [0] he explains himself reasonably clearly. He isn't talking about the entire class of duties that a modern apartment or housing landlord has. He is talking about the part that requires no planning, ongoing investment, work or even attention.

Some aspects of being a landlord are economic rent and should go away, but other parts are ownership and maintenance of capital and shouldn't. I'd suggest that while Smith was against economic rents he'd have no particular issue with a capitalist renting out their capital - even if that capital is a house. Note that Chapter 11 is rent of land not of capital.

[0] https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/... - hehe, marxists.
I recently was stumbled upon a code change done by a colleague who just followed the suggestion as is from Copilot, where it recommend `func (string, string) (error, struct)` whereas everywhere in the code we use `func (string, string) (struct, error)`

When I asked him what prompted him to do that, he said copilot suggest it so I just followed. I wonder if you could hijack copilot's results and inject malicious code as many end users does not understand lot of the niche code it generates sometimes, you could manipulate them to add the malicious code to the org's codebase.
I've been coding Python for 15 years, but I probably couldn't code in Python now without Copilot, or a lot of reference docs. There's so much meaningless trivia and idioms I've purposefully pushed out of my mind so I can focus on other things. If copilot has my back, why do I need to remember that crap?
> I am pretty convinced one student just copypasted my test questions into ChatGPT or BingAI and then copied the answers. I didn't have a way to prove it so I had to give him the benefit of the doubt and grade it assuming he did it honestly.

I wonder if a more AI-resistant approach is to provide poor code examples and to ask students to improve it and specifically explain their motivations.

They can’t just rely on code output from an LLM. They need to understand what flaws exist and connect the flaw to the fix, which requires (for now, I think) higher-level comprehension.
Yeah, being a good person plays both ways. It is a shame when tenants squat, and it's a shame when landlords avoid their legal obligations when they know their tenants can't effectively do anything about it. My point is that sitting in court won't turn a bad experience into a good one.
How A Steam Bug Deleted Someone's Entire PC (2015) [video]
Devin will be able to DoorDash and log in to your accounts
It’s also kind of annoying to intuitively get to the correct answer and have everyone claim they can’t distinguish between that and you using a calculator.

I wonder if that would be an issue if nobody had any.
Visualizing C++ data structures during debugging
Except for Vista. People hated vista but everyone I encountered seemed to love the next one ...windows 7.

(I liked the look of Vista, and it ran OK on my machine; but I still went with 7)
Some of the synonyms chosen are not really synonymous.

"Person is walking normally in a circle." turns into "Human is walking usually in a loop." But at best that's ungrammatical. At worst, it sounds like "usually" might modify "in a loop": that is, someone is spending most of their time walking in a loop, but some of their time walking in some other pattern.

"A human walks a quarter of a circle" turns into "A native motions a quarter of a loop". But "motions" as a verb can only refer to gesturing. I would expect to see someone waving their arm in a quarter circle.

But it probably doesn't matter. It sounds like the model's understanding of grammar (or at least its robustness to unusual sentence structures) is too weak for those nuances to even be relevant.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. ~ U. Sinclair

A significant problem is the subconscious defense mechanism or bias that compels us to conclude that AI has various shortcomings, asserting the ongoing need for status quo.

The capabilities of GPT-3.x in early 2023 pale in comparison to today's AI, and it will continue to evolve and improve.
Variety in ergonomics years before they're needed is helpful.
You’re already lifting, so that is a good start.

As you hit 30 and beyond, you absolutely need a stretching/mobility routine. Whether it is yoga, or short 10-15 min rolling/stretching programs (eg “limber 11”) that you can do when you wake up. Things like BJJ and also great for body awareness and getting you moving properly.

In terms of lifting, in my early 30s I transitioned entirely to minimalist kettlebell programs and feel much better than when I was doing heavy barbell work. Plenty of info on the net but a good starting point is to get a 16kg and 24kg kettlebell and start with “simple and sinister” (just swings and getups), and progress through a whole other bunch of minimal programs (2-3 movements eg ROP, DFW), and see what works for you.
This reminds me of a clip I saw of an older martial arts practitioner, like heavy-duty, far east, everything was translated. He had spent decades punching harder and harder things until he had to hit opponents at a small fraction of his strength, as his forearms on up were mineralized clubs on the inside. A full strike could kill.

I watched closely and his hands didn't seem to be much use for anything else.
The GP comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40242447) was flagged by users—lots of them, and rightly. It's a clear example of what we don't want on this site: personal attack, name-calling and snark, with zero interesting information. It doesn't matter whether the target is a public figure, because the issue is the poor quality of the comment itself.

You're right that they're "guidelines" not "rules" because there's a certain amount of slack. But in the current case, the comment went way beyond the slack.
attack on titan is also a mecha anime
A hot tub was literally a game changer for me. I have lingering sports injuries plus growing aches. There were many days that I was on the edge of tears from the pain.

Then I got a hot tub. 15 minutes in it cuts out 80% of my pain. Doesn’t even have to be jets. Just the warm water seems to alleviate a lot of my pain.
You missed it.

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Some restaurants, like China Live, also charge customers a 20% service fee that goes to employees in lieu of the traditional tipping system.

...

“You can’t just jack up prices,” he said. “People are going to get sticker shock. Now a dish that was $20 before will be $26. People will notice that.”
'

Hmmm. $201.2= $24, not $26.

I guess only some* people will notice...
I think it’s kinda relevant when someone presents their RSI as ‘losing their hands’?
The most expensive housing in Berkeley is the housing owned by the University. Private owners provide cheaper alternatives.
Some of the additions are nice but I also think some of them just add unnecessary complexity. Some of them (e.g. the @layer feature) diverge from CSS fundamentals in a radical way and don't let you achieve anything new (just gives you more ways to get to the same place). My feeling is that Google is trying hard to lock developers into Chrome. I wish they had come up with a new standard and just invented a new simpler CSS alternative instead of adding more stuff on top of the existing standard.
Cuba sentences 22-year-old to 15 years in prison for posting videos of protests
> (Yes “consciousness is an illusion” is a wordplay. If you claim it’s a scientific theory, then what does it predict?)

Here's the start of what you're looking for:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116933119#fig01
If you're trying to do things efficiently you can't afford not doing code reviews. Only well-funded organizations can afford to write the same code twice after the first attempt has to be thrown out.
I'm not entirely sure, but FWIW I think there might be something behind the fact a lot of restaurants historically had a lot of gas connections compared to electrical making it relatively cheap and easy to continue with gas. Meanwhile, especially at a restaurant scale, swapping out that much gas infrastructure could mean literally close to a megawatt of peak power for all equipment installed at a large restaurant compared to just continuing on using the same gas pipes that have been there for decades to almost a century in some cases.

That and there's probably a lot of "this is how I've always done it" in some industries. I'm just an outsider though, so I'm entirely open to these ideas being refuted.

If the energy cost difference to run a stove isn't that much different at current market rates in terms of overall COGS, but it'll cost you six figures to redo your whole kitchen, you're probably not going to switch. This gets continued on when the next tenant moves in. There's plenty of gas capacity here but barely enough electrical to run all the lights. Do you renovate to add enough electrical or just continue running gas?
Right! Read my reply to alibarber.
You're right, most of them are awful, including the ones in Berkeley. But they still arguably provide a service, which is liquidity in the housing market. The provide housing for people who can't or won't buy it for themselves.
Yeah, they played safe with this one.
Enlist my friends to flip more coins in parallel :)

At a high level I’d probably try and exploit the fact that every bit sequence with a given number of H and T has equal probability. e.g., HHHT HHTH HTHH THHH are equally probable and so can be mapped to four different values. That still only gets me 2 bits (50%) but other combinations (e.g., variations on HHTT) could get me log2(6) bits. I’m guessing with a higher number of flips I could extract (on average) more and more as a proportion. No clue what the asymptote would be.
If all the landlords sold, there would be no place for the people that want to rent.

Sure, some landlords will sit on a property rather than rent it for less than max. And some landlords will rent for the absolute minimum that pays the bills (and doesn't account for risk, load, etc). But lots of landlords are in the middle, renting for a fair price, treating their renters reasonably, etc. And forcing them out of the market isn't going to help the overall health of the system.
Code Is Like Garden
Here are four lecturers talking about being barred

That's not what the article says. Of the 4 academics, 1 of them (Hoftman) spoke of being assaulted after approaching the protests (just as protesters have been assaulted by folks from the pro-Israel side). Not of being "barred from entry" into the campus per your description:

But also look at Israelis who want to enter the universities and can't.

So far you are unable to substantiate this claim.

But US press doesn't write many of these stories because it doesn't fit the narrative of the publishers.

Of course it does - the Hoftman story was all over Fox News for example. It's viewers love to gobble up stories like these.
I had created this many eons ago. Nothing fancy. Absolutely nothing fancy at all. Just a page from where you can copy some text.
https://yash.info/lorem.htm

Yours is also cool. I like the copy buttons.
Show HN: Geochat – Location-Based Chat Rooms Mobile App
Hey HN!
I'd like to share my latest project, Geochat, a mobile app that combines chat rooms with geo-location features. The core idea is to connect people based on their physical proximity and interests.

With Geochat, you can:

- Discover and join chat rooms centered around your current location

- Create your own location-based chat rooms

- Easily switch between different chat rooms as you move around

- Add people you meet as friends and direct message them

The app is currently available on the App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/geochat-chat-with-neighbors/id...) and Google Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geochat.ap...).

I'm really excited about the potential of Geochat to facilitate local connections, and help build communities. However, I'm still in the early stages and realize I have a bit of a chicken and egg problem to solve, but I would love to get feedback from the HN community on the app's usability, UI/UX, and overall concept.

Some questions I have:

- Does the App Store listings clearly communicate what the app does?

- How intuitive is the onboarding process and core functionality?

- Are there any missing features you'd like to see in a location-based chat app?

- What are your thoughts on the concept of geo-located chat rooms? Would you find this useful?

- Any suggestions for improving the UI/UX or making the app more engaging?

- Also, regarding UX, I added sound effects to some of the actions you take to make it more immersive and I'm curious if this is annoying or having the desired effect.

- General comments, feedback

I'm actively working on the app, so your feedback would be invaluable. Feel free to share your thoughts, ask questions, or suggest improvements. I'll be here to discuss and respond.

Thanks in advance for checking out Geochat! If you’d like to keep up with the project you can follow me on X @Aaronjay_ or @heygeochat

App store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/geochat-chat-with-neighbors/id...

Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geochat.ap...
I remember reading about this concept in a kids book about “the future” published by Usborne in the mid-1980s.
AI was incredibly helpful while learning LeetCode. Altho it's unable to reason at this point, it has was amount of info about most of the data.
> That's bullshit; being a landlord is a lot of labor. Buildings don't magically maintain themselves. It is true that there is a disconnect between the labor and the income; being a landlord in a desirable area isn't more labor than being a landlord in a less desirable area (in fact it can be less!).

Nope. I co-own a late 19th century New England triple-decker: a purpose -built rental building endemic to the northeast, and easily one of the most common rental properties in the country. In my comparatively inexpensive market, it would yield about 8k month in revenue. In Boston, it would be closer to 15k. The building hardly requires more maintenance than my 2021 car. I lived in apartments where the landlord literally didn't step foot in our apartment in the 8 years I lived there except for the one time our two downstairs neighbors got bedbugs so we all got treated (and it was a 45 second walkthrough.) If you think being a landlord is "a lot of labor" for the amount of income you get out of it, you either don't realize how little most landlords put into their properties or you don't realize what "a lot of labor" means.
"You can't increase the prices, people will notice that"

Right, they will notice when ordering not when receiving their bill.
Thanks for sharing your feedback!
Lets say I had the knowledge and engineering to make a home scale (say 0.5-1.0 KW) reactor RTG or similar that could be sold as a sealed box you attach to a wall has sensors for various safety measures and just chucks out AC power all day long. At the cost of $5-10k that makes decent economic sense if it would keep going for about 25 year life time. I think that is potentially doable fairly safely with fuels other than Uranium 235.

You can vaguely do this DIY today using the long life radioactive glow sticks and some solar panels and get a constant power device but its very inefficient and too expensive for the power it produces and its half life is too short.

There is I think no viable way to make that business reality. The government intervention would be absurdly high and it would never make it to market even if the cost of the device was economically competitive with a Solar or Wind setup. This is one of the ways Solar and Wind became dominate, they scale really well from the small to the large, especially solar which the panels on the roof of a house are the same in a multiple MW power station.
Found the guitarist
"susty"? lol
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/javascript/the-const-deception/
That’s not an “other” gateway path… it’s an example of the same path described in the post you replied to.
Okay, cool, but until science finds a way to teach my AuDHD addled brain to not scream in agony at the mere thought of doing exercise, this knowledge does nothing but make me depressed.
The top and bottom plate are unlikely to get punched, as you're going to tend to punch towards the middle height wise. Fire blocking became required by code in maybe the 80s or definitely in the 90s; there's a lot of older housing that may not have it. Also, it seems like a lot of this punching or kicking of walls happens near doorways, you're going to tend not to punch the wall near the doorframe, and if you go in maybe one shoulderwidth, you're not likely to hit a stud.
There ought to be a law that the rental valuation drops by 1% for every month that the space remains without a tenant.
This is absolutely great news. You can't even compare 2 restaurants anymore because their fees might be different.

This is also good for places that rent out stuff, but have a fine print like 'mandatory refuel fee of $x'.

If it's mandatory it should be part of the price.

Bring this to AZ please.
I think GP is asking, why bother with 23.04 when 23.10 and 24.04 are both out
> [Landlords] are the only one of the three orders whose revenue costs them neither labour nor care

Spoken by someone who has never been a landlord. Being a landlord incurs risk and mental load at a minimum. Being a good landlord costs both labour and care.
Former chef who still keeps up with friends still in the industry. Everyone I know loves using induction at home, but it hasn’t really hit the professional kitchen yet for a few reasons. 1. Electric service upgrades are not cheap. Running 8+ burners for hours a day takes some beefy infrastructure. 2. Gas is already there and the stove is paid off. Restaurants are really low margin, so splurging on an induction range does not make sense when the gas range you already have running is still working fine. 3. I am not seeing as many manufactures of restaurant grade induction stoves. Chefs beat the shit out of stoves, lots of pan slinging and extremely heavy stock pots moving around. I am not sure how well an induction rangetop would hold up to the abuse.

Where I loved induction burners was for doing random small projects like Sunday brunch omelettes, or a one off dish that needed a sautéed element on pantry shifts. Super easy to set up at a banquet and so much better than the little butane stoves we had when I first started working in kitchens.